Comments on: Senior Skip Day…er…Year

By: D

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:06:22 +0000

Depends on how mature and independent the person is. I'm pretty sure you won't be able to get buy if you can't do simple things that like laundry and cooking for yourself (something I've seen a lots of lazy college kids).

However, three years seems fine. A lot of credits are spent on "useless" non-major requirements anyway. If you can avoid those and focus on your major, less money spend on school and start your life earlier.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:26:52 +0000

Some majors (the more advanced ones) require four years even with careful planning and with knowing your major in advance. Blow off majors like Liberal Arts kind of let you take a year to do random gen eds, but with majors like Architecture and Engineering, you dedicate four years of specific classes and hard work.

But I totally agree that the other majors could make it happen in three.

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By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:04:53 +0000

I’m from the UK and pretty much all our degrees are 3 year courses – I kinda envy the American way – where you have a year to decide your ‘major’? Here we have to have already decided before we even start university – which does seem to lead to a lot of people dropping out or being unhappy with their course/decision!

By: hanabira

hanabira — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:55:46 +0000

it would take some rejigging perhaps but i dont see that it would mean a degree lacked anything. many countries have 3 year degrees as standard.

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:43:23 +0000

Lisa, if you can graduate in three years, they don’t stop you, but four is the norm here.

I would have been able to graduate at the end of this upcoming year (my junior year) if I had taken a full course-load every semester, but I didn’t want to. It’s that other stuff that makes college what it is. I love the experience and I wouldn’t want it to end in three years.

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:53:27 +0000

About the rest of the article, I am in college but I don’t participate in the whole “college experience” I go to class and that all I have to do with college. I don’t hang out with people from school, I don’t go to school functions, I don’t go out drinking at the local school bars. I have a full time job, a boyfriend, family life, and friends outside school. I am basically in the “real world” going to college. And this is how a lot of people do it. I think it’s better to not get caught up in the college life, your grades are better, you’re more focused, you learn about the “real world” while you’re in college, and you don’t have that slump after you graduate where you’re thinking “what the hell am I going to do, I don’t know how to be grown up, I just wish I was a freshman again”. I would love a three year program so I can move onto my masters and doctorate sooner.

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:23:40 +0000

haha, yeah I made some ziplock bags out of an industrial garbage bag the other day at work. Way to reuse my resources! My manager was like “we don’t even need to order supplies you can just whip up some pens out of some dust and a paper clip!” I probably could too, I’m crafty like that

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:23:26 +0000

I don’t see why this is new…haven’t you guys always had the choice of a 3 year degree? In Canada we have had them for as long as i remember. If someone’s concerned about switching majors, etc, and needing more time, you can always take more time….but there’s a lot of people who dont need that extra time, and also for people looking to go back to school in their mid to late 20′s or 30′s, a 3 year degree is probably much more feasible and attractive to them, seeing as they’ve lived, pardon my expression, in the ‘real world’ for so long. Missing out on work, and having to take loans cause they are supporting themselves, and possibly having children in the mix….I think that’s why 3 year degrees are a really great option.

By: Nisha

Nisha — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:01:41 +0000

I graduated in three years. I have no regrets about it. I did still get all the life lessons, "The road trips, the friendships, and all the other stuff that comes with a 4 year college degree." I just got it in three years instead of four. But I still had fun and made great friendships and got the experience I wanted.